- Prisoners, Judges, Fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general
The "Brethren" are three disgraced former judges incarcerated at a fictional federal minimum security prison who embark on a scam to blackmail wealthy closeted gay men. Unfortunately, the judges ensnare a candidate for U.S. President backed by the CIA.
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Classical in form, contemporary, cool and unpretentious.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- cooloverwhelming
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- John Grisham
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 443
- Publisher
- BCA, Remzi Kitabevi, Pearson Education, Limited
- Editions
- 51
- Language
- German, tur, Italian, Portuguese
- ISBN
- 9780385339674
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“FOR THE WEEKLY DOCKET the court jester wore his standard garb of well-used and deeply faded maroon pajamas and lavender terry-cloth shower shoes with no socks.”
Long before his name became synonymous with the modern legal thriller, he was working 60-70 hours a week at a small Southaven, Mississippi, law practice, squeezing in time before going to the office and during courtroom recesses to work on his hobby—writing his first novel. Born on February 8, 1955 in Jonesboro, Arkansas, to a construction worker and a homemaker, John Grisham as a child dreamed of being a professional baseball player. Realizing he didn’t have the right stuff for a pro career, he shifted gears and majored in accounting at Mississippi State University. After graduating from law school at Ole Miss in 1981, he went on to practice law for nearly a decade in Southaven, specializin
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